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Amazon.co.uk review summary for Panasonic DMR-BW780

alaTest has collected and analyzed 63 user reviews of Panasonic DMR-BW780 from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other DVD Players on Amazon.co.uk.

86% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Panasonic DMR-BW780 Freeview HD Blu-ray recorder

Record Freeview HD and burn it to Blu-ray

Extensive feature set, picture quality, operating system, twin tuners

The DMR-BW780 is not only an amazing recorder, offering loads of features and superb pictures from Freeview and Blu-ray, but it’s also a terrific digital media hub. It’s a lot more versatile than any of the forthcoming Freeview HD PVRs and the...

The DMR-BW780 is not only an amazing recorder, offering loads of features and superb pictures from Freeview and Blu-ray, but it’s also a terrific digital media hub. It’s a lot more versatile than any of the forthcoming Freeview HD PVRs and the...

Panasonic DMR-BW780 review

This slimline beauty can not only play DVDs and Blu-ray discs, but also records them. Thanks to DVB-T2 technology, HD and SD digital TV programmes alike can be captured by the 250GB HDD. There are two such tuners, and so you can record two different...

An in-built DLNA media server enables you to share standard-def video, JPEG photos, and some types of HD content with compatible devices, including many flatscreen TVs. Thanks to networking, the world of BD-Live content is open to you (with an SD card...

Although there’s a CD-ripping jukebox on board, the media server won’t stream any of the music you’ve stored to compatible devices. And even after the relevant DR-mode bitstreams are converted to another mode that would be compatible with most devices,...

Panasonic DMR-BW780

Panasonic shows that Freeview+ HD inside a Blu-ray/HDD recorder is a winning formula.

The DMR-BW780 comes very close to our idea of the perfect recorder – a twin-tuner Freeview HD deck with Blu-ray recording and playback, backed up by a simply staggering array of other features. In terms of picture quality, ease of use and functionality...

Panasonic DMR-BW780

It doesn't stop there either. There are both Firewire and composite video inputs so that you can watch your camcorder movies on your TV, and an SD memory card slot and USB port for watching photo slideshows. There's also an Ethernet port allowing it to...

Panasonic DMR-BW780

Looks good, easy to use, my previous dvd recorder was Panasonic and the instructions for use are similar. Only had it for a short time so can only comment on basic record and playback, havn't recorded onto disc yet but from past experience Panasonic...

Case is a bit plastic and the layout of TV guide and recorded programes not so easy on the eye as my older machine but maybe there is a choice of layout